Arab states back Egypt’s $53 billion Gaza plan, ‘technocratic’ administration
The plan, which additionally calls for the UN to consider sending peacekeepers to the Palestinian enclave, could face obstacles from Israel and Hamas.
Arab states adopted a Gaza plan championed by Egypt on Tuesday that calls for a “technocratic” committee to administer the territory under the Palestinian Authority as well as the deployment of peacekeeping forces to both Gaza and the West Bank.
The states proposed the plan to serve as an alternative to US President Donald Trump’s proposal to remove Palestinians from the territory, an idea that has elicited strong regional opposition.
Arab leaders gathered in Cairo for an emergency summit on Tuesday to discuss Egypt’s plan for postwar Gaza. Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit told reporters on Tuesday evening that the plan adopted by the participants serves as a “clear, practical and realistic alternative for the proposal evacuating Palestinians,” adding that the states are united in “rejecting the proposition for displacement.”
Gheit said the plan was developed by Egypt in collaboration with the PA. It calls for reconstructing Gaza in phases via Arab and international funding and will preserve “Gaza’s legal status as part of a future Palestinian state.” He said the enclave, which is currently run internally by Hamas, would be administered by independent “technocrats” for six months under the proposal.
